second South Carolina Death prisoners choose to execute through the shooting squad.
Mikal Mahdi, 41, will be executed on April 11 after being murdered in 2004 for murder.
“Faced with barbaric and inhumane choices, Mikal Mahdi chose the smaller of the three evils,” said one of his attorneys. “Mikal chose the shooting squad rather than burning and dismembering in an electric chair or waving death on a deadly injection of gunney.”
Brad Sigmon He chose to be shot dead in South Carolina on March 7, becoming the first prisoner to be fired in the United States in 15 years. A doctor declared Sigmun dead less than three minutes after three bullets hit.
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Mikal Mahdi, 41, is scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. on April 11 in a prison in Colombia. (South Carolina Department of Corrections through AP)
This method has been performed by this method by three other prisoners, all in Utah.
Arrest records show Mahdi stole a gun and a car in Virginia on July 14, 2004. The next day, he Shoot and kill The North Carolina clerk was checking his identification. A few days later, he hijacked someone at a crossroads in Columbia, South Carolina.
On July 18, 2004, after these crimes, Mahdi hid in Orangeburg, South Carolina, a shed by public safety official James Myers. Prosecutors said Mahathir ambushed Meyers when the officer returned from a birthday celebration with his wife, sister and daughter.
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This photo provided by the South Carolina Department of Corrections shows the state’s death room in Columbia, South Carolina, including a right chair and a shooting squad chair. (South Carolina Department of Corrections/AP)
Myers, 56, was hit eight to nine times, including two after falling to the ground. One pathologist testified that at least seven of these shots were fatal.
Mahdi then caught Miles’ body on fire and ran away. Myers’ wife found her husband’s body in the shed, and they used her body against the background of the wedding.
Brad Sigmon was beaten to death in Greenville County in 2001. (South Carolina Department of Corrections through AP)
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On July 21, 2004, Mahdi was detained in Florida.
Landon Mion of Fox News and the Associated Press contributed to the report.
